every day is BOXER day

OK, after much debate here is moms contest. You play on her site, on dogmanic.ning.com.

OK guys, free loot! Yuppers, prize time. I think a simple photo contest for this first edition! On a whim, I think this one will be springtime bliss. I want pictures of your fur babies showing what spring means to you, and them. Whether it be flowers, gardens, hiking, camping, whatever it is to you.

Post a photo, make sure to message me to make sure I see it. You have until June 15th for this first contest.

1st prize will be a framed sketch of your dog.
2nd prize a beaded harness
3rd place gets a grab bag. (it could contain charms, toys, odds and ends, one never knows!)

First, gramma came over to play with us. We got to play with her and her old border collie for the whole first night. For some reason momma kept grabbing things like our back packs, getting them adjusted for us to wear, and grabbing our food! Gramma told us it was ok, and we got to wiggle at her to keep distracted. Uh huh. The next thing you know, mom was loading up the truck up with all kinds of stuff, and she loaded us in too! We watched gramma waving from the door as we drove away.

It took furever but we got to the campgrounds. As we watched from the truck, suddenly mom had a whole tent home set up for us! It was pawsome. We got to run and play for a while on leash while mom ran the entire campground with us! Oh the bouncing and snorting was grand I tell you. But soon she had us on tie outs, and we had to stay in one area while the smoke from the fire kept following us around! This was the start to a grand adventure. *sigh*

First we had smoke in our eyes, and keeping us from being able to breath well. Then came the chipmunks. If squirrels are tree rats, these are tree mice! These tiny creatures surrounded us, darting in to invade our camp. Next came some odd looking bluejays, about a dozen of them! Soon it was 30 degrees, we couldn't breathe, and we were surrounded by tiny wild creatures after our lunch! Mom took us for walks, but even moving and wearing sweaters it was getting colder. (later we found out that it was snowing not far away from us)

By the time we were able to go to bed we were shaking from the cold even with sweaters, and ended up sleeping on top of momma and daddy's mummy bags, under a zero degree sleeping bag! We were perfectly comfy so long as we stayed under the cover, but mom and dad were in pain from the cold slipping past the terma pads and the large tree roots under them. Come morning, not even light out yet, the next days adventure started. We again got to explore, running among the trees and examining the flowers. We got a neighbor moved in who had a Pomeranian. They were setting up for a huge white water celebration being held this weekend. Thus started the barking from Brigid as the man scoured the entire campground for any wood he could find. They tried to get us to go, but daddy has an appointment friday so we had to come back. I am bummed that we missed the pawty, but you dont know how glad i was to come home! Gramma was waiting for us, and we were wiggling so hard we pinned her to the couch and Brigid sat on her head kissing her!

So gramma came over to see us yesterday! She says it was to help mom with her business stuff, but we all know that's not true. Nope, it was to see ME! And she brought Brittany too. I loves having dogs come over, so I spent the next 6 hours kissing everybody. After a while mom made me go lay down, but I always ended up back over there kissing again.

I love my gramma!

Oh, and for dogs wanting to see some of the stuff mom is starting to work on, she has a website where she is starting to show stuff for sale. Its not a true store site, no clicking to order..... its old school right now. Also, if you look on her page and click "applications" she also has a few things on Shopit, which will soon accept some other types of payments! *yipppppppeeeeeee* Anyway, its http://dogmanic.ning.com for those who want to peek. Mom adds stuff ALL DAY EVERY DAY.

PS, if you go to "photos" and then sort by albums its much easier to check it out.

OK, so much has been happening since we last spoke. Well, first mom is now home with me all the time! And I get to sample all the dog stuff FIRST! *happy dance* I am getting my home cooked meals again, and I have cuddles on demand!

More laters, but I just cant believe the good luck! Whats next for this dog, the lottery?!

Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Dogs who are tagged, need to post in their diary the rules and their 7 pawsome facts. Then choose some dogs to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to bark them a pmail that they have been tagged and to read your diary, or, send them a fun Rosette announcing they've been Tagged!

OK, mom has decided that we have had it too easy for too long, and we are getting sloppy. This came with the statement that things were going to change. I don't like the sounds of this. She hasn't told me just what it is that she is thinking of doing, but that tone cant be good! *sigh* Sounds like we are going "back to school". Wonder what she's going to do with us this time!?!

Dad wants to have us trained to recall like we used to again, but we need to go to an enclosed field free of other dogs for a while to do it. We stopped going for runs off leash when we moved here, and when dad HAS let us off, we made ourselves look bad. But its so good to run! We always come back, but we haven't been good about it as of late.... And mom is pretty mad about it. So they might work more on that. (we cant play in dog park to train because of Brigid's bossiness)

She's also talked about training us to jump thru hoops. Might do that one. She has one, but never really worked us on it. But we are bored with our regular routine! Not sure, what do you pups think?

I hear the weirdest sound coming from moms craft room. It smells like kitty, but yet I hear this high pitched squeaky meow! MOM HAS KITTENS IN THERE! Man, I wanna go see them. Sounds like fun. Mom says that I need to wait a little while though, cause they are really young and besides, they had lots of stress with moving around to be here. *sigh* Maybe when their eyes open I can go see them!

Mom brought the kitties back to the shelter..... and I didn't get to say hi to these ones! Mom usually lets me meet them, just away from BRIGID. BOL. Mom said that Holly would scratch me, and that Sasha was sick and had a real bad cold mom didn't want me around. POO! Well here's hoping that she brings home more..... I heard her talking to dad last night and she was saying they REALLY need people willing to foster momma cats with their babies right now. We could do that! I would be great with a litter of kittens

Oh man, she's gone off the deep end. Mom is posting baby pictures of me on dogster. ARG. She said she's going to switch out often and just keep going till she runs out. This could take a while, she's got thousands of dog photos!

Ok, mother is plotting against us, I just know it. She brought in another cat! Its funny looking. Mom calls it a tortoiseshell, named Holly. They said at mom's work that she was getting kennel stress and starting to act out, so mom is giving it a try to see if maybe she can make her happy again. Meanwhile, we have ANOTHER FREAKING CAT IN THE HOUSE. ARG!!!! We just got back to being catless. *grumbles* that didn't last long. And you know how scary these kitties are!